The “history wars” have heated up as more schools are debating whether America’s founding goes back to Independence Day in 1776 or to Virginia’s first Africans facing slavery in 1619.

An anti-slavery movement of whites and blacks was being born, but the nation's westward expansion, a booming Southern economy, and the invention of the cotton gin, all boded ill for quick abolition.

This article originally appeared on NorthJersey.com: How did Jews react to American slavery? It's complicated, says North Jersey author "Fear No Pharoah" book cover© Farrar, Straus and Giroux ...

Trump wrote: "The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been — Nothing about ...

Learn about the origins and arguments of the abolitionist movement in this BBC Bitesize Scotland National 5 revision article on the transatlantic trade in enslaved African people..

Lincoln's slavery tacticA key part of the Emancipation Proclamation was its invitation to freed slaves and other African American men to enlist in the Union Army. Lincoln’s proclamation thus ...